Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1887-11-04
THEY MUST HANG.
The Finding of the Trial Court in the
Chicago Anarchists Case
Confirmed.
The Reckless Dynamiters Receive the
News of their Fate With Ap-
parent Indifference.
The Insanity Dodge Suggested but
Rejected as Beneath the Dig
nifty of the Dynamiters.
Spies, Fielden and Schwab Reluct-
antly Sign Petition for Com
mutation of Sentence.
The Jail Doors Closed to All Visitors
Except reporters ana RelaClVeS
of the Prisoners.
The Detective Force of the Menaced
City Increased and Every Pre-
caution Taken.
Active Preparations for the Execution
Ropes Ordered and Additional
ScaffOlds to be Built.
A Sensational Report of a Supposed
Attempt to Assassinate Chief
Justice Waite.
The Detective Force of the Menaced
City Increased and Every Pre-
caution Taken.
Active Preparations for the Execution
Ropes Ordered and Additional
ScaffOlds to be Built.
A Sensational Report of a Supposed
Attempt to Assassinate Chief
Justice Waite.
An Explicit Document.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.-The decision of
the United States supreme court upon the
petition for writ Of error IN the case of the
Chicago anarchists was announced this
afternoon by Chief Justice Waite in long
and carefully prepared opinion which
occupied thirty-fve minutes in reading.
THE DECISION.
The court holds in brief
l. That the first ten amendments to the
constitution are limitations upon federal
and not on state action.
2. That the jury law of Illinois is upon
its face valid and constitutional and that it
is similar in its provisions to the statute of
Utah, which was sustained in this court in
the case OF HOpt vs.. the territory OF Utah.
8. That it does not appear in the record
that upon the evidence the trial court
should have declared the juror, Sanford,
incompetent.
4. That the objection to the admission of
the Johann Most letter ana cross-examina-
ton of Spies, which counsel for the prison.
ers maintained virtually compelled them
to testify against themselves, were not
objected to in the trial court, and that
therefore there was no foundation laid for
the exercise of the courts jurisdiction.
5. That the question raised by General
Butler in the cases Of Spies and Felden
was never raised nor decided in the state
courts, and therefore cannot be considered
here.
sequently be denied.
There was no dissenting opinion.
THE NEWS IN CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, Nov. 2.-The first news of the
decision Of the supreme court in the case
of the anarchists was taken to the county
Jail by an associated press reporter few
minutes after it had been received from
Washington. All the prisoners were in
their cells when the news arrived. A note
was sent up to Spies telling him the writ
had been denied and asking if he had any
statement to make in regard to the matter
Spies was sitting in his cell busily engaged
with some manuscripts. He read the note
and returned it with short II have moth
ing to say" None OF the other men would
fectly quiet in and around the jail and all
over the whole city. The denial of the
writ was what was universally expected
here. Within fifteen minutes after the
verdict was known eight or ten officers in
citizens clothes appeared. Two OF them
stepped quietly into the Jail and the Others
disposed of themselves in the criminal
court building and about the neighbor-
hood. The bailitf at the outer door leading
into the jail court says he is instructed to
admit no one, but whether this applies to
the near relatives of the death sentenced
men is not known. The streets about the
Jail are perfectly quiet No crowds have
gathered and no Incidents of any sort have
as yet occurred.
THE POLICE ARE PREPARED
for any emergency, though they say they
have no fear of an uprising or open vio-
lence No one was allowed to enter the
Jail during the afternoon except officers,
reporters and relatives of the anarchists.
There was a ruch of miscellaneous people
to the condemned men before it was too
late. They entered the sheriff's office in
droves, but the latch string had been with
drawn. Loud and long were the expostu-
lations, but the burly deputy was as obdu-
rate as the prison walls. Friends of the
doomed men bearing baskets of delicacies
for them begged admittance. The dainties
were passed in, but only relatives gained
an entrance. Sheriff MatsOn said: II
don't want to make any fuss about it, but
VISITS OF OTHER ANARCHISTS MUST STOP.
Henceforth the doomed men will not be
allowed to have any more recreation hours.
don't want these men to cheat the gallows
by killing themselves. Their friends might
give them daggers or poison and although